Recognised as one of the biggest races during the Perth Summer Racing Carnival, the 2017 Railway Stakes is a Group 1 mile race worth $1 million in prize money. Open to all horses aged three years and older, the Railway Stakes takes place at Perth’s Ascot Racecourse in mid-late November.

Many of the better horses come from the Melbourne Spring Racing Carnival, while locally in Perth a key lead-up race into the Railway Stakes field is the Group 2 Lee Steere Stakes (1400m) held over 200m shorter a fortnight prior that last produced a winner in Great Shot (2nd in 2017). Due to the hot conditions of Western Australia, the race is more suited to local horses accustomed to the heat of the area. Many Railway Stakes contenders do go on to compete in the Group 1 Kingston Town Classic (1800m) held two weeks later.

The Railway Stakes runs a week before the $1 million Group 1 Winterbottom Stakes (1200m), which is Perth’s premier sprint race.

2017 Railway Stakes Results

1st: #6 Great Shot

2nd: #1 Black Heart Bart

3rd: #3 Tom Melbourne

See below for the full Railway Stakes 2017 Results & Finishing Order, following the link to read more on the brave all-the-way win of $31 local hope Great Shot who held off five-time Group 1 champion Black Heart Bart (2nd), while the $5 favourite Tom Melbourne (3rd) settled for another frustrating place.

Place

#

Horse

Trainer

Jockey

Margin

Br.

Weight

SP

1

6

GREAT SHOT

Rhys Radford

Craig Staples

–

8

53.5kg

$31

2

1

BLACK HEART BART

Darren Weir

Brad Rawiller

0.15L

6

59kg

$8

3

3

TOM MELBOURNE (IRE)

Chris Waller

Damien Oliver

0.35L

1

55kg

$5F

4

16

VARIATION

Stephen Miller

Brad Parnham

0.75L

3

53kg

$8.50

5

12

MATERIAL MAN

Justin Warwick

Ms Lucy Warwick

0.75L

9

53kg

$16

6

14

POUNAMU

Alan Mathews

Patrick Carbery

1.75L

11

53kg

$26

7

11

GATTING

Darren Mcauliffe

Lee Newman

2L

2

53kg (cd 54kg)

$26

8

5

ULMANN

Darren Weir

Damian Lane

2.25L

4

54.5kg

$13

9

8

ALL OUR ROADS (NZ)

Chris Waller

Craig Williams

2.5L

14

53kg

$16

10

9

COSMIC STORM

Grant & Alana Williams

Jarrad Noske

2.75L

13

53kg

$51

11

15

SOVEREIGN NATION

David & B Hayes & T Dabernig

Chris Parnham

3.25L

12

53kg

$21

12

2

SCALES OF JUSTICE

Lindsey Smith

Douglas Whyte

4.5L

10

57.5kg

$10

13

7

SILVERSTREAM

Adam Durrant

William Pike

4.75L

16

53.5kg

$19

14

10

DISPOSITION

Adam Durrant

Shaun Mc Gruddy

6L

7

53kg

$61

15

13

OBSERVATIONAL (GB)

John Sadler

Joseph Azzopardi

14.25L

5

53kg

$51

16

4

SUPPLY AND DEMAND

Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott

Joshua Parr

49.75L

15

54.5kg

$8

–

19e

BOLLYWOOD BLITZ

Neville Parnham

–

–

2

–

–

–

20e

TONKATUFF

Brad Graham

–

–

7

–

–

–

17e

TRADESMAN

Robert & Todd Harvey

–

–

9

–

–

–

18e

ROYAL STAR

Grant & Alana Williams

–

–

17

–

–

2017 Railway Stakes Tips

1st: #16 Variation

2nd: #7 Silverstream

3rd: #2 Scales Of Justice

Follow the link to read our full Railway Stakes 2017 Tips & Betting Update, the Races.com.au team tipping last year’s WA Guineas winner VARIATION ($10) who is the early market mover getting in on just 53kg with the gun barrier four draw for the gun miler. SILVERSTREAM ($16) is at a generous price after drawing the outside barrier, but the Adam Durrant-trained mare remains an Each Way chance after beating last year’s Railway Stakes winner home in the Lee Steere Stakes. SCALES OF JUSTICE ($6.50) returns to defend his title and looks a big hope to place at his pet track getting out over a mile.

2017 Railway Stakes Betting Odds

The latestRailway Stakes odds 2017 on the field of hopeful milers from Perth and the eastern states will be listed below complete with links to Ladbrokes.com.au for you to lock in your Railway Stakes Betting Tips at the best summer racing odds.

2017 Railway Stakes Field

The official Railway Stakes Final Field is announced by Perth Racing on the Monday of race week followed by the full Railway Stakes Barrier Draw on the Tuesday and will be published in full below once released.

The 2017 Railway Stakes Field attracted a capacity 16 starters plus four emergencies. The reigning champion Scales Of Justice is tipped as the horse to beat again, the local hope facing a host of eastern-state raiders in this year’s Railway Stakes field. Darren Weir saddles-up two rivals including the 59kg top weight Black Heart Bart who is a five-time Group 1 winner, while Sydney’s Chris Waller also has a double shot at the million dollar race with Kennedy Mile graduates Tom Melbourne (2nd) and All Our Roads (4th).

The 2017 Railway Stakes Barrier Draw has the Chris Waller-trained perennial runner-up Tom Melbourne drawn in barrier one. Last year’s Railway Stakes winner Scales Of Justice saluted from gate eight and is drawn in 13 this season, while the other top fancy in Railway Stakes betting Black Heart Bart came up with last year’s winning alley.

Railway Stakes History

Inaugurated in 1894 when Wandering Willie took the title, the Railway Stakes was won by Cox Plate winner Better Loosen Up in 1990 and Caulfield Cup winner Northerly in 2000. There have only been three horses which have managed to win the race more than once and they are Tudor Mak in 1968-69, Miss Muffet in 1987-88 and Luckygray in 2011 and 2013. Throughout the race’s history there have been several distance changes from the original 12 furlongs. In 1926 the Stakes became an 8 furlong race until 1974 when it was decreased to 1500m. In 1984 it was finally changed back to a 1600m race and has remained so to this day.

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